«The Visit» (September 11): Hot and sometimes extremely - cold M. Night Shyamalan returns with a found footage movie that played well to preview audiences at San Diego Comic - Con, riding the somewhat - positive reviews of his new series «Wayward Pines.» (rogerebert.com)
Rumours abound that Tom Cruise, angered by preview audiences who rated Emmanuelle Beart's performance in Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible (1996) superior to his, cut out as many of Beart's scenes as possible: although De Palma denies this, there is a smoking gun, for the trailers contain shots of Cruise and Beart making love, something that never happens in the released film. (sensesofcinema.com)
If such flagrant dumbing - down is tolerated, they'll be more of it; the good news is apparently preview audiences across the country have laughed it off the screen (at least one such raucous bunch did, shining promotional pocket flashlights at the screen while groaning with disbelief), and the early reviews have been blistering. (nitrateonline.com)